Examples

The boy hefts sinkers from the coffee cans arranged on the floor, fingers the packs of Eagle Claw hooks on the pegboard, stares at the shiny packs of Line Buster prepared baits: Bloody Cheese, Slimy Shrimp, and Oily Shad.

Jimmie Higgins turned into "Tom's Buffeteria", and greeted the proprietor, and seated himself on a stool in front of the counter, and called for coffee, and helped himself to "sinkers" -- which might have been called "life-preservers", they were blown so full of air.

We were going to buy "sinkers," which was used car terminology for the considerable number of automobiles that are pulled from the waterways of Louisiana, Mississippi and even extreme southeast Texas following accidents or storms.